About the Jamaican Vireo
The Jamaican vireo is a species of bird in the family Vireonidae, the vireos, greenlets, and shrike-babblers. It is endemic to Jamaica.
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The Jamaican vireo is about 12.5 cm (4.9 in) long and weighs about 9 to 10 g (0.32 to 0.35 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a mostly greenish olive to grayish olive head with yellowish olive gray above the lores and on the chin and throat. Their upperparts are greenish olive to grayish olive with a slightly brighter rump. Their wing coverts are brownish gray with wide yellowish white tips that form two wing bars. Their primaries and secondaries are dusky to grayish with paler olive green outer edges and whitish inner edges. Voice: The Jamaican vireo's song is highly variable but in general is rapid and high pitched; a phrase is repeated for several minutes and then changed. "Individual notes within phrases are often clear, slurred whistles, but phrases can also include scolding sounds or modulated notes." Phrases have been written as sewi-sewi and wee-weet-weet-wuu.
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Where it lives
When to see it
Peak activity in March · a variable species across most of its range
Easily confused with
Cozumel VireoVireo bairdiThe Cozumel vireo is 11.5 to 12.5 cm (4.5 to 4.9 in) long and weighs about 11 to 14.5 g (0.39 to 0.51 oz).
Choco VireoVireo masteriThe Choco vireo is about 12.5 cm (4.9 in) long and weighs about 11 to 11.5 g (0.39 to 0.41 oz).
Slaty VireoVireo brevipennisThe slaty vireo is 11.5 to 12 cm (4.5 to 4.7 in) long; one individual weighed 11.8 g (0.42 oz) and two others 12.3 g (0.43 oz).
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